Yellow Jack hit its victims indiscriminately and unpredictably. Some contracted just a touch of fever. Others suffered from an agonizing array of symptoms that left about 400 dead and more than ...

“Yellow jack” is back. The mosquito-borne disease known as yellow fever is primed for a resurgence, say medical experts, and the US is woefully unprepared.

They personify it as "Yellow Jack," and represent him as tripping around the streets, slaying his thousands and grinning as he says; they characterize it as "Bronze John," and figure him as ...

Even the editor of one of Tallahassee’s newspapers, the Tallahassee Floridian, died from yellow fever that year. In May 1841, Yellow Jack traveled from either Port St. Joe or Port Leon (accounts ...

But after performing an autopsy on the last man to die, he thought of yellow jack. He checked, found that all five dead were jungle farmers from an area 35 miles east of Panama City.

About two minutes later, he surfaces with a 15-pound yellow jack impaled on a glinting spear. He... Lazaro Cabrera pulls a Neoprene hood over his crop of loopy black hair and slips ...

‘Dead House on the Schuylkill During the Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793’ (undated) by David J. Kennedy, depicting the site where some of the bodies awaiting burial were stored.